PACIFIC is a non-scale war game for 2 players. It is played on a board with pieces which represent naval Attack Planes, Aircraft Carriers, and Kamikazes.
“One is prepared for surprises in [Finlay’s] work, but not, perhaps, for the advent of PACIFIC... Finlay has previously designed a slate and marble chess set with austerely shaped pieces resembling submarine conning towers, but that was a contemporary invigoration of a traditional game... that was to erect irony upon artifice, that was the traditional mode - with certain differences! - of the poet. It was quite another thing to invite someone to win or lose a game with another player... what had this raiding game to do with the raid on the inarticulate (Eliot?) Poetry may be a superior kind of play, but can play be a superior kind of poetry?” [Orvell “Poe and the Poetics of Pacific” in Ian Hamilton Finlay Collaborations. p.17]
This project is a digital adaptation of the Pacific board game created by Ian Hamilton Finlay.
For detailed rules, see GAME_RULES.md.
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- See
TASK_LIST.mdfor current tasks. - Important notes are in
IMPORTANT_NOTES.md. - Architecture details are in
ARCHITECTURE.md.
This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See the LICENSE file for details.
This project is the frontend client for the Pacific war game, built with SolidJS. It is designed to be a playable experience in any modern web browser. For instructions on how to get the frontend running, please see the game's README file.
- (Instructions to be added once the service is developed)